In a full-scale operation following
the long-standing "Fiche"-tradition à la The
"BLUTGEIL-Case"the
SSI-media-headquarter was raided. ["fiche"
= file at the secret political police in Switzerland.]About
20 heavily armed Zurich city police officers in uniforms and
plain-clothes kick in house- and apartment-doors and smash
windows to enter the house at Klosbachstrasse / Kreuzplatz. Without
search warrantthe snoopers turn living- and working-rooms
upsidedown and confiscate without protocol. Official oral
explanation (a written was not available): Hausverein Klosbachstrasse
denied access to construction workers!

Past history:
After working a hard night shift until 6 in the morning an occupier
is falling asleep that Friday morning 25th August 2000, when suddenly
the door bell rang furiously. He gets up again and opens the front
door to 2 land surveyors, who would like to go on the roof to do their
job for the upcoming "Kreuzplatz"-block-construction.
He lets them enter without difficulty and they mark the roof where
to put up marking pole nr. 9. The occupier is pointing out that
he happened to be hearing them ringing. For granted access an appointment,
written or by phone, would sure be a good thing next time. The
one surveyor makes a note and promises to forward it to the construction
workers putting up the marking poles. Then the occupier goes to sleep
again. Concearning missing marking pole nr. 9 neither managment
nor construction worker did get in touch since.

"Preventively"
confiscated once again:

Cover-dummy of
censored Swiss-edition

Genuine and with
content legally available all over...

Now today
the Zurich city police appears with the noted explanation,
that we denied access to construction workers (q.e.d.). Then they
smash everything to pieces and snoop around (every
once in a while) through our living- and working-rooms, extensively
take pictures everywhere, check books, booklets, CD's etc
distributed by SSI, ransack archive fotos, slides, drawings,
collages, notes, adressbooks and zealously pack in - without
search warrant of course ("We don't need that!" Quote
city police), even without search protocol and presumably just
for fun after all. Matter of honour that - also purely accidentaly
- they know about BLUTGEIL and the ssi-media-homepage
www.blutgeil.com. But as squatter you logically have
"no rights" (Quote city police).

By the way: 3 years ago the home-owner
was introduced to the "Hausverein". We grant with our names for
the settlement of all costs caused by our being here since
and to leave the house before construction work actually starts.
There were no complaints and we even would pay rent, if
the home-owner could consent to a rental-agreement.

The confiscated booklets, books
etc are "preventively confiscated" as always and we have
absolutely "no rights" to get them back ever or even a list.
An official receipt is only handed out for a confiscated exposed
negative.

And by
the way: Want to bet that marking pole nr. 9 missing since
4 days will officially be of no consequence? (Construction
calling was last friday.) Building contractors observing the
regulations? Not with the help of city construction office and
city police!

Cheers

SSI
and Hausverein Klosbachstrasse

PS: At least the police officers were
that accomodating not to keep us covered with drawn guns the whole time
forcing us to put our hands up for hours. Thank you!

PS2: Do you know this one: If we named
the owner of the grass, they would have left it here!

Reality teaches everybody otherwise,
who hoped for some basic changes at Zurich City Police since the
real-life-comedy
around the "BLUTGEIL case". Not only that involved police officers
of "Turicum-squad" preventively confiscated haphazardly (cultural)
items again (see last letter).

But once again self-made film-props
grew unexpected into "real police clubs", "weapons"
now handed over for further investigations to the "Fire and Attack-squad"
together with all other confiscated items. The "Fire and Attack-squad"
is the successor squad of officially "dissolved" snooping section
"PMS". (The abbreviation means "politically motivated delinquency",
not to mistake for "pre-menstrual-syndrom".) Also the fact that
the police took masses of photos of our living- and working-rooms
is a hint at some conclusions...

Athough needing a judicial order,
Zurich city police developed the confiscated photo-film meanwhile.
They looked through the photos and a confiscated video-tape,
the only 2 items handed over until now.

Confiscated items
"disposed by mistake"!!! to blame is the cleaning lady!!

Zurich 25.9.00

Dear friends of bad taste

Actually hard
to believe, but apparently true: According to Mr. Zuend's
("Task force arson + attempts", CID Zürich) phonecall to SSI yesterday,
all"preventive confiscated"goods at
ssi-media.com on
5.9. were destroyed meanwhile - except the two "nightsticks"!!According
to Mr. Zuend's statement
the cleaning staff "mistaked" the goods packed in a
plastic bag for a full garbage bag and simply "threw
it away"!!!

We can go
get the 2 "nightsticks" in his office on Wednesday - "but please
not before half past three, until then I am still in the coffee break".
On this occasion he will hand over the indoor photos of our apartment
taken by the police to the shredder - mind you, only the photos
and not the negatives.

OK, OK, we
are a litlle bit envious of so much insolence - or do we have
to say cunning? -, we frankly
have to admit. Especially
as we do not know in conclusion today, what the officers packed in of
our magazines, books, film-props, manuscripts, adress-lists etc
behind our backs.

So full
of remorse we have to put on record that we are 100%mistaken. It is correct on the
contrary, that the "Task force arson and attempts" does not
need no search warrant or other petty little matter for "preventive
confiscations" - why, when evidence of brute force is sufficient
enough!!! And also the quote of the confiscating officer - picsthat
we have no right on a confiscation protocol or the return
of the confiscated goods anyway - turned out to be completely true
in the meantime ...

Despite watching officers with our own eyes taking more pictures of
the rest of our fittings in the first floor, the
boss of "arson + attempts" assured trustingly that
these are the only indoor photos that have come out well. There
has been no instruction to take photos in our
apartment at all

It is just about to start: With support of media unioncomedia
SSI instructed
a lawyer to look after the striking violations of media
laws, police decree etc by the city police.
First
of all she asked the police,
in particular Mr. Zuend of task force "arson + attempts",
in
a letter
of 19.10.00 to
give a written comment.
The fact that there is no reply until now, surely is no sign for the
proverbial arrogance of particular officers of the city of
Zurich, but for their overwork - f.e. to let confiscate
BLUTGEIL-videocovers, want to bet?

And
from the viewpoint of police not worth mentioning: Even after
a registered demand
head of city police Zurich and responsible officers think of no
need to present a legal basis("We
don't need!") for
such "everyday happenings", nor a written apology
- according to the motto "Who has the power, has the right!"
They are confident in politics and judiciary to cover them
up, if someone dare (or
can allow him/herself financially)
to "go to law" at all against such wheelings and dealings.

With support
of media unioncomediaSSI
instructed a lawyer to look after the striking violations
of media laws, police decree etc by the city police. First of
all she asked the police in letter
of 19.10.00 to
give a written comment. And the rest was dead
silence

For these reasons SSI
has brought a charge against the police because of abuse
of their position, even we hardly go on
the assumption that this step helps right or justice
on the road to success

«What
happens if average mortals
take legal proceedings against the police
concerning abuse of authority?»

Right, nothing happens at all first:The charge lands in the drawer, where it stays
in 9 of 10 cases until it comes under the statute of limitations
(Rule No. 1).

No district attorney would ever admit that in public
of course. On the contrary! The proceedings "are
running" is the regular confirmation on request. Say, if
the district attorney feels urged to take the first steps under
pressure of lawyers, publicity
or politics,
so it is totally sufficient to ask the involved police officers
for a not binding statement. A fundamental reply will
never take place of course, but the poor, harassed district attorney
(as any other average citizen) is helplessly fobbed off with untruth,
lies and excuses tried and tested since decades, until rule
nr. 1 finally comes into force (Rule No. 2).

Police
officers heavily working
(with ladder)

Also in the "Kreuzplatz Case". In a phonecall
to our lawyer District attorney Markus Imholz jolted by press
reports
and interpellation
of Balthasar Glaettli, member of the district council
uttered the intention
in the beginning of 2001to
summons the concerning fallible officers, if there is no
reply until the middle of March. But this declaration
of intent was never fulfilled because he urgently had to lock
up some small drug users. Again in a big number Erwin Zuend
head of task force "arson + Attempts" uttering flabbergasting
half truthto
our lawyer (incl. backdating
letters) (see his two letters of 30.11.00
and 6.3.01),
but according to rule nr. 2 obviously being successful with
district attorney Imholz.

Therefore our tip to all more or less law-abiding citizens: Feel
free to try it that way, if you happen to get a summons by the
public prosecution next time  and wonder, how fast your apartment
door gets kicked in and you wake up in the hospital,
let's say without front teeth! (We urgently
advise somebody looking like a Jugo by chanceagainst
this method and/or especially if you happen to live in Bonstetten:
After a "unerring warning shot" someone did not wake
up anymore there  also official investigations
could logically not determine, which officer caused the hit.
What's the point?)

That is proof that in the eyes of the law everybody is treated
equal in Switzerland. In the face of these circumstances we could legally
take up arms
by virtue of the active right of resistance. We can
still
do that later. That's
why we temporarily
only asked our lawyer to write again
a nice
little letter, dated 22.3.01
to poor Mr. Imholz in the meantime. He maybe will voluntarily
take the finger out of the ass against all rules...

PS: Rule No. 3: If Mr. Blocher
[Swiss right-wing billionaire] or any other high society member
brings something to court, then legal proceedings are immediately
to institute.

Rule No. 4:If
a guy looking like a Jugo or any other subhuman creature
brings something to court, then a summons is immediately to take
out against this person, making use of the "unerring
warning shot" in the back of the head if
possible.

Rule No. 5: If an average mortal can
pay a legal adviser with vigour and if he achieves a lasting
alarm for the public, the media and the representatives of the
people, then the use of Rule No. 3is to fake, until
the fuss dies down and the proceedings can finally brought to
an end according to Rule No. 1.